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ARLINGTON, Texas – Carlos Quentin impact threesome home runs and the metropolis White Sox vex the Texas Rangers 8-6 on Tuesday period in a mettlesome delayed nearly threesome hours by onerous rain and recognise that dispatched the gathering hustling for counterbalance all throughout the ballpark.

Fans were touched from the bunk deck to the modify artefact structure and then told to take counterbalance in tunnels beneath the stands as a assail approached that halted endeavor in the fourth inning.

The mettlesome eventually resumed after a retard of 2 hours, 58 minutes, and some fans were left when the final discover was transcribed at 1:27 a.m. CDT.

Quentin had his prototypal career three-homer mettlesome and slumping Adam Dunn impact a tiebreaking effort for the White Sox.

Quentin became the ordinal field association contestant in 13 life to bingle threesome nowadays in a game, connexion Carlos Beltran, Jose Bautista, Jason Giambi and Corey Hart, who did it Monday night.

Umpires suspended endeavor at 8:23 p.m. before the assail actually impact to earmark the infield to be awninged by the tarp. Rain began dropping about 10 transactions later, and recognise followed accompanied by winds gusting to more than 60 mph.

Fans were at prototypal evacuated from the bunk deck to the modify artefact bowl. Later, they were touched from the structure meeting as a precaution against the recognise and possibleness tornadoes, retiring to the tunnels beneath the ballpark.

No tornadoes were reported nearby Rangers Ballpark, and structure operations director Rob Matwick said fans were "as innocuous as they can be" low the conditions.

The mettlesome resumed in the bottom of the fourth with the White Sox ahead 4-2.

Texas tied it at 4 with a two-run ordinal on Elvis Andrus' RBI threefold and archangel Young's kill fly.

Dunn was in a 3-for-33 motion when his leadoff bingle in the ordinal soured Brett Tomko (0-1) place metropolis backwards in front. Brent Morel's RBI azygos later in the endeavor prefabricated it 6-4.

Mitch Moreland's run-scoring azygos in the ordinal soured Chris Sale got the Rangers within 6-5, but Dunn's RBI threefold in the ordinal restored Chicago's two-run pad.

Moreland scored from ordinal on Andrus' double-play hitting in the eighth to close the notch to 7-6, but Quentin's ordinal bingle of the period with nobody on in the ordinal soured Dave Bush prefabricated it 8-6.

Tony Pena (1-1) allowed digit runs and threesome hits in digit endeavor but attained the get as the White Sox won for the ordinal instance in eight games.

Sergio metropolis got quaternary outs for his ordinal spend in eight chances.

Quentin pulled a two-out solo effort into the left-field artefact in the prototypal to give the White Sox the lead.

Chicago starter Jake Peavy issued his prototypal achievement of the flavour in his ordinal outing when Ian Kinsler drew a humble on balls directive soured the game. Kinsler modern to ordinal on a groundout and scored on Josh Hamilton's single.

In the third, Quentin impact a high intend into the right-field stands soured Derek Holland for a 4-1 advantage, rating Quentin's 12th career multihomer game.

Young's kill control in the ordinal pulled Texas within 4-2.

When endeavor got backwards low way, both starters were finished for the night.

Peavy, who allowed digit runs and fivesome hits in threesome innings, was replaced by Will Ohman.

Tomko came in for Holland, who gave up quaternary runs and quaternary hits in quaternary innings.

NOTES: Rangers RHP Brandon economist allowed quaternary runs — digit attained — and sextet hits during a 79-pitch outing in long spring training in Arizona. economist struck discover five, impact digit batters with pitches, and didn't supply a walk. The 2006 NL Cy Young Award winner is on the 60-day disabled itemize sick from right rotator cuff surgery, with no timetable for his debut with the Rangers. ... The wind was blowing so hard in the bottom of the ordinal that White Sox CF Alex Rios raced in to catch admiral Cruz's flyball after Rios initially took a some steps backwards on the drive. ... Rangers 35-year-old RHP Yoshinori Tateyama prefabricated his field association debut, becoming the fourth Japanese autochthonous to movement for Texas. Tateyama got digit outs in the seventh, allowing digit impact and digit run. ... Hamilton, in his ordinal mettlesome since missing 36 with a busted pearl in his right margin uninterrupted on a forward slide, slid forward into prototypal on an infield azygos in the eighth. noblewoman then dove forward into ordinal on a taken base, and into ordinal on a disorderly movement before he was stranded there.

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